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CONSTITUTION 

OF THE 

)ociety [or tpe Protection of Horestj 



"We, Citizens of the United States, being also Citizens of 
the State of New York, believing that Forests are essen- 
tial to the Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial inter- 
ests of the Country, for the purpose of securing their 
preservation, and increasing and disseminating among the 
people a knowledge of the necessity and methods of Forest 
Management, do form an Association and adopt this as 
our Constitution. 

Aeticle I, — Name. — This Association shall be called : 
The Society for the Protection of Forests. 

Article II. — Executive Committee. — The General Man- 
agement of the concerns of the Association shall be en- 
trusted to an Executive Committee of five members besides 
the officers. 

Article III. — Annual Meeting. — The annual meeting of 
the Association shall be held on the second Tuesday in 
January in each year unless otherwise ordered by the 
Executive Committee, on written or published notice to 
the members, at which meeting there shall be elected by 
Ballot a President, ten Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and 
Treasurer, also five members from the Association at large, 
who with the foregoing officers shall form the Executive 
Committee of the Association. Any failure to elect at 



such annual meeting shall be remedied at the next regular 
meeting. Until an Election shall be had 
shall be President, shall be Vice-Presi- 

dent, and shall be Treasurer. 

Aeticle IV. — President. — It shall be the duty of the 
President to preside at all meetings, to give the casting 
Yote whenever there is a tie ; to draw upon the Treasurer 
for all sums that have been appropriated by the Associa- 
tion, or that have been authorized by the Executive Com- 
mittee, and perform such other duties as usually apper- 
tain to the President of an Association. 

Article V. — Vice-Preside7it.—ll}iQ Vice-Presidents shall 
assist the President when necessary, and in his absence, in 
the order of their election, perform all the duties and be 
invested with all the powers of President, and in the 
absence of both any member may preside. 

Article VI. — Secretary. — The Secretary shall keep a 
written Kecord of the proceedings of the Association ; 
issue all notices required, attest all moneys to be drawn by 
the President authorized by the Executive Committee, and 
shall keep the records and jDapers of the Association. 

Article VII. — Treasurer. — It shall be the duty of the 
Treasurer to receive all the moneys of the Association, and 
pay all orders drawn upon him by the President attested 
by the Secretary, and none others ; to see that all fees and 
subscriptions are collected, and keep an account of all 
moneys received and expended, subject at all times to the 
investigation of the President or Executive Committee. 
He shall at each annual meeting furnish a full written 
account of all the moneys received and disbursed during 
the year. He shall keep the moneys of the Society in 
Bank in his name as Treasurer of the Society separate 
from all other moneys, and at the end of his term shall 
surrender all books, papers, vouchers and property of the 
Association to his successor. 

BY rRANSFER. 

iUN 3 1910 



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6 1 Wall Street, ) 
New York City, Dec. 8th, 1884. f 
Dear Sir : 

Understanding that you are interested in the preservation of woods and waters I enclose you a copy 
of the Constitution of the Society for the Protection of Forests and ask your earnest co-operation. 

We have at the sources of the Mohawk and Hudson, also at the sources of the Delaware and Sus- 
quehanna Rivers, abundant primeval forests, from which since our race came to this land those rivers 
have been fed, and an ample area of mountainous country has been kept green and moist, from which 
vapors and coolness and springs have issued all summer long and to which those who were weary with 
work resorted for rest. 

Latterly the encroachments of squatters, the spoliation of lumbermen and the clearing up of tem- 
porary settlers, with or without title, has contracted the area of forests and materially injured the woods 
that remain. Lakes have been dammed and suddenly drawn off to carry logs. State lands and lands of 
non-resident owners have been pillaged. Large areas have been burned over by negligence of lumberers 
or those clearing up lands. At present a great portion of these districts are reduced to the condition of 
desert or like the Bad Lands of the West, being of little value to man or beast, and dangerous as the 
source of sudden floods from the rain that was formerly retained by the undergrowth to form a regular 



and gentle supply of water. 

The only remedy for this disaster is an enlightened public opinion that will compel legislators to 
pass laws for the cultivation and protection of the woods in spite of the opposition of lumbermen and 
squatters. This opinion we look to you to awaken by writing, speeches, conversations with your local 
representative, local societies formed for this purpose, and by public meetings of such societies, at which 
we will be glad to be represented. 

The law should provide for the retention of all land in these districts owned by the State, the pur- 
chasing of all other lands sold at the tax sales, provisions for the purchase of such adjoining lands as in 
the opinion of the Commissioners of Forests would be suitable at a just price, in no case exceeding say 
$2.00 an acre, and the appointment of Forest Commissioner, to have charge of the forests, with full 
power to protect them and to make recommendation to the Legislature for further legislation. 

May we have your cooperation in this matter ? 

With hearty good will I am your fellow citizen, 

CHAS. E. WHITEHEAD. 



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Aeticle YUl.— Executive Committee.— ThQ Execu- 
tive Committee shall make all purchases ; authorize 
the expenditure of money; audit all accounts; have a 
general jarisdiction over the affairs of the Association, and 
have power to suspend any officer vi^hose conduct shall have 
been prejudicial to the welfare of the Association until the 
next regular meeting. Five members shall constitute a 
quorum. The Executive Committee shall have full 
power to fill any vacancy which may occur from death, 
resignation or otherwise among its officers, and any appoint- 
ment so made by it shall be valid until the next annual 
election. 

Article IX. — Fees and Z)we5.— Persons becoming mem- 
bers of this Association shall pay an annual fee of one 
dollar, and the fiscal year shall begin from the first of 
January of each year. 

Aeticle X. — Proposals of Members. — Persons wishing 
to join this Association must be proposed by some member 
personally acquainted with the proposed who can vouch 
for his interest in the purposes of the Society. 

Aeticle XI. — Honorary Memiers. — Persons proposed as 
honorary members in this Association may be proposed in 
the same manner, and honorary members when elected shall 
be exempt from payment of annual dues, but shall not be 
entitled to fill any office or vote at any meetings of the 
Association, and shall not be deemed as forming any part 
of a quorum at any meeting. 

Aeticle XII. — Forfeiture of Memlersliip. — In case a 
member shall neglect to pay his dues for a period of one 
year after notice given he shall ipso facto cease to be a 
member of the Association, and shall forfeit all rights to 
the property of the same. The names of such delinquents 
shall be stricken from the list of members on motion at a 
regular meeting, but such member may be reinstated 
within twelve months from the period of forfeiture by the 
unanimous vote of the Executive Committee. 



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Article XIII. — Resignation. — All resignations shall be 
made in writing to the President, and all interests in the 
property of the Association of members resigning, or in 
any other manner ceasing to be its members, shall be 
vested in the Association. 

Aeticle XIV. — Matters not provided for in Constitu- 
tion. — All matters not particnlarly provided for in the 
Constitution shall be controlled by the Executive Com- 
mittee until specially passed upon by the Association at a 
regular meeting. 

Aeticle XV. — Meetings. — This Association shall as- 
semble at sach time and -place as the President and Execu- 
tive Committee may designate for the transaction of the 
general business of the Association, and seven members 
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any busi- 
ness which may be brought before them. 



Morris K. Jesup. 
Chas. E. Whitehead. 
Horatio Seymour. 
Chas. S. Smith. 
Sam. D. Babcock. 
Thatcher M. Adams. 
Thomas Denny. 
Erancis H. Weeks. 
Chas. P. Daly. 
E. H. Robertson. 
Jas. R. Thompson. 
Wm. E. Pearson. 
Robert W. de Forest. 
W. E. Dodge. 
Calvin E. Pratt. 



Solon Humphreys. 
C. N. Bliss. 
T. B. Coddington. 
Edward M. Shepard. 
John S. Kennedy. 
J. A. Roosevelt. 
Abram S. Hewitt. 
Henry C. Potter. 
Roswell D. Hitchcock. 
Geo. G. Wheelock. 
H. W. de Forest. 
Heber R. Bishop. 
Henry E. Pellew. 
John H. Seymour. 



And many others. 



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